http://freepussyriot.org/
― Sébastien, Monday, 30 April 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
see, now that's punk rock
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Monday, 30 April 2012 03:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
"The charge is pussy riot, the verdict is guilty and the sentence is 7 years. This court stands in recess"
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 30 April 2012 09:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
― sleepingbag, Monday, 30 April 2012 10:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
That is a misleading URL
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
One Russian paper apparently translated Pussy Riot on their English-language site as "Uprising of the Uterus".
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 12:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh sorry, same vid at op. missed it somehow
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 12:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd be pretty surprised if they did go to jail - a suspended sentence is more likely. The chance for the state to (in their minds) look magnanimous in the eyes of the international community is more important than suppressing a punk band.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh man, they are singing Bogoroditsa
We did that in college
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
The chance for the state to (in their minds) look magnanimous in the eyes of the international community is more important than suppressing a punk band.
Don't know about that. They've been held without trial for the past two months - and the hearing's still not scheduled til June.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 30 April 2012 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
We'll see. There's obviously no chance of them actually looking magnanimous under the circumstances but i wouldn't be surprised if it ended up like the cases you have in Thailand of people being given suspended sentences or being pardoned after insulting the King. The message is clear - don't fuck with authority - but the fiction that the state is fundamentally reasonable is partially maintained.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Monday, 30 April 2012 13:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really want to take this seriously, and eventually I will, but at the moment I am still in the "cracking up every time I read the name 'Pussy Riot'" phase of engagement with this story
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/03/pussy-riot-trial-russia
― StanM, Saturday, 4 August 2012 05:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
Times have had 3 stories about Pussy Riot since this happened. I imagine some sub-editor was trying to win a bet.
― You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. (hugo), Saturday, 4 August 2012 06:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
It has been getting coverage on Radio 4's Today programme as well.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 4 August 2012 11:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Good long piece here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/29/pussy-riot-protest-vladimir-putin-russia?intcmp=239
― ledge, Saturday, 4 August 2012 12:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
verdict in a few hours...?
― Harvey Cartel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
valiant, graceful closing statement:
http://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/yekaterina-samutsevich-closing-statement/
― , Blogger (schlump), Friday, 10 August 2012 11:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
amazing, everybody read that
― goole, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, that's fantastic
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/the-riot-girls-style/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_shall_not_pass
I confess to not previously having known the origin of the No Pasaran slogan, worn by a bandmember
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will stage a solidarity concert this Friday, August 10, from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. outside the Russian embassy (corner of Wisconsin Ave. and Edmunds St., NW Washington DC) in support of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot.
AIUSA supporters and local D.C. music groups and artists, including indie and punk rock bands Brenda, Möbius Strip and Sad Bones, will call for the release of the prisoners of conscience. From 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., AIUSA will host a concert directly outside the embassy, as high-energy activists dressed in full Pussy Riot regalia lead chants and musical performances.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
agree that statement is great
wonderfully emblematic of a certain strain of blunt cynicism & black humor in Russian leftism that I find really appealling
xp
― hologram sticker of Ken Griffey Jr. at Denny's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Excellent
― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Agreed. Rolling Stone had the following from the closing statements of the other band members:
"I, like Solzhenitsyn, believe that words will crush concrete," said Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, standing in front of a slit in the glass and metal cage where the band's three members have been held throughout their trial. "We sit in a cage, but we didn't lose. And the dissidents didn't lose. Disappearing in psychiatric wards and jails, they convicted the regime."
"At Brodsky's trial, his poems were also dubbed 'so-called poems' and weren't read – just like the witnesses just watched our video on the Internet," added another band member, Maria Alyokhina. "I am not afraid of you. You can take away my 'so-called' freedom, but you can never take my inner freedom."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pussy-riot-make-final-pleas-in-moscow-court-20120808
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 August 2012 16:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
<3
― j., Friday, 10 August 2012 17:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
The statements were very good.
It'll be a huge deal if they are jailed - not just because it would be a crack in the veneer of the government's respectability but because it would be a massive over-reaction to an imaginary threat. They pose no danger to the political status quo - if the government treats them like they do then they're losing it. It has been a PR disaster from the start and if they compound that mistake with a jail term it'll show how rattled they are.
Putin's public statements recently have been urging the courts to show leniency, while not talking down the supposed seriousness of the crime. That, to me, reinforces the idea that they'll get time served or a suspended sentence but it's really difficult to predict.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
Not sure that Putin really cares that much about the pr damage. Look at his approach to Syria.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
Syria doesn't make any difference to the legitimacy of his power, which is the primary thing he's interested in.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
look at his approach to life
― tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
needs to kiss more boys on the stomach obviously
― the choogler and the chosen one (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
FREE PUSSY RIOT Public Reading
Thursday August 16 @ Liberty Hall at The Ace Hotel in New York
This Thursday night, August 16th @ 7:30pm, on the eve of the trial's verdict, Pussy Riot's inspirational court room statements will be read by supporters of the Free Pussy Riot movement, including Chloe Sevigny, Eileen Myles, Karen Finley, Johanna Fateman, Mx Justin Vivian Bond (+ others to be announced) info here. The verdict for the Pussy Riot trial will be stated on Friday August 17 @ 3pm Moscow Time (8am EST). ALSO: There will be a march and rally on Friday, info here. Free Pussy Riot encourages any artists / activists to join on Thursday evening and Friday in solidarity with the three detained women, Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich of Pussy Riot.
WHO: FREE PUSSY RIOTIn support for the release of the members of the feminist performance Art group Pussy Riot; Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich.http://www.freepussyriot.org/https://twitter.com/freepussyriot]#FreePussyRiot#LetOurSistersGo
WHAT: On the eve of the verdict in the Pussy Riot trial, an energetic evening of readings of the inspirational court room statements by the detained women of Pussy Riot. The narrated program will also include selected prison letters and other translated material along with court room attendees written observations.
Writers:Katja SamutsevichNadia TolokonnikovaMasha Alyekhina
Confirmed Readers:Chloe Sevigny Eileen MylesKaren FinleyJohanna FatemanMx Justin Vivian Bond
WHERE: Liberty Hall at the Ace Hotel20 West 29th Street.New York, NY 10001
WHEN:Thursday, August 16th Doors open at 7:30pm Free and open to the public.
― dow, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
tempting!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Karen Finley is still around. Wow.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
Update: the xpost reading etc will be streamed live 8/16 here: https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1294758/events/1050371 re more readers and maybe others to be added, check here https://www.facebook.com/events/336406896449171/
― dow, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 21:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
There is still something inherently not quite right about the phrase Free Pussy Riot.
But yeah, please let them go, mr. Putin.
― StanM, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
my butt was on RT with some other butts that in concert had FREE PUSSY RIOT written on them while pointed at the russian embassy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 16 August 2012 01:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
I know if there's one person that can sway Putin and his gang, it's Chloe Sevigny!
― crustaceanrebel, Thursday, 16 August 2012 04:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
damn a hoos butt even down for some insurrection
― contenderizer, Thursday, 16 August 2012 04:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Free Hoos Butt
― StanM, Thursday, 16 August 2012 04:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Pussy Riot
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 16 August 2012 05:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
FREE PUSSY RIOT
WHO:PUSSY RIOT
WHAT:PUSSY RIOT
WHERE:PUSSY RIOT
WHEN:PUSSY RIOT
― contenderizer, Thursday, 16 August 2012 05:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
^ chorus
From BBC News:
BREAKING NEWS: Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Friday, 17 August 2012 11:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
World goes back that little step further into the Middle Ages.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 17 August 2012 11:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Fittingly some middle aged and Middle Aged cockfarming Oxford professor was defending Putin on Today this morning.
― ledge, Friday, 17 August 2012 11:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
The verdict was pretty much inevitable. The sentencing will be the critical thing here.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 17 August 2012 11:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
But guys! Guys! The Ecuadorean embassy could still ~totally~ offer them asylum, right?
Oh.
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 11:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
From The Guardian:
Some very blunt words from pop star Kate Nash, who perhaps far more than Madonna has the power to get a lot of teenage girls from around the world mobilized in favour of Pussy Riot.
Or possibly not.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 17 August 2012 12:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
imo there is a clear and very real difference between someone saying "Jews should be exterminated" in a general sense and someone pointing at me and saying "kill that Jew over there". Both statements are personally offensive, but only the latter is a direct threat.
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
Inciting racial hatred can be saying assholish things in public.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
hatred is not a crime
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
eh, not so sure about that myself. my willingness to defend free speech ends at the point where anyone's "extermination" is being called for, whether in a general or specific sense. would defend awful stuff that doesn't edge quite so close to incitement of violence.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
Inciting racial hatred is - in the Uk
― kraudive, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Uh. Really? I've kinda held back from this debate because I've agree with most of what has been said - and, well, I don't post much. But this is off, IMO. I cannot defend, for example, David Irving's right to deny the holocaust which led to him being barred from Germany, where that is a criminal offence in that country. Going further still, I won't defend the right of a Nazi sympathiser in the UK for any espousal of race hate, where it is a criminal offence to incite racial hatred.― kraudive, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:07 PM (14 minutes ago)
― kraudive, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:07 PM (14 minutes ago)
i'm not gonna spend my time lecturing germany for having that law (tho i can't see ANY good that came out of sending irving to prison), but freedom of speech means very little if it doesn't protect awful and offensive views. if we can send ppl to prison for expressing sympathy for the nazis, i don't know what we do with all the leftists down the years who've expressed sympathy for stalin (or lenin, for that matter), or all the nutjobs with confederate flag shirts.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
how's that workin out for you guys kraudive. racial hatred all gone yet?
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well. That's different isn't it?
I know a lot of the UK's ultra-white Nationalists have been convicted of just that thing in the last couple of years. This law may have stopped a thuggish element overtake the marginal ultra right wing parties - they have divided into smaller bands of even more unelectable units. Unlike, for example - in France, where the Far Right have found some government.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
I have the impression that in France even the leftists are racists but what do I know
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
LOL, yes, "Fight the power", get tattoos.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
How very subversive of you guys, getting a tattoo of 'hooligan' in Russian, i bet you are celebrating by buying the best coke you can get. You're gonna get some mad punk rock sex with those new tattoos, you edgy pieces of shit.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
I suppose it's easier than, i dunno, flying over to Russia and protesting outside the prison or something. Or really doing anything.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0250_0616_ZD.html
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
The Chik-Fil-A farrago (obv pales beside what's happening to PR) was a welcome reminder that good liberals are absolutist when affirming the First Amendment rights of disgusting people.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
This law may have stopped a thuggish element overtake the marginal ultra right wing parties
at the risk of sounding glib, so what if it has and why should you need a law to punish speech used by a thuggish element?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
absolutely. i'd never condemn anyone just for threatening to boycott a restaurant.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
boycotting a restaurant isn't an infringement on anyone's First Amendment rights
― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'd never condemn anyone just for threatening to boycott a restaurant.
huh?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
;)
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Uh. Really?
Really. Hate speech is against the Criminal Code in Canada too and I oppose this policy, preferring the US's approach in this area. (Afaik, it only gets you a fine here, not jail time.) If a Nazi skinhead band were to record an anti-Indian record and get fined for it, you can bet I'd be willing to, uh, comment on message boards and cover the issue in a class, which is the extent of my support of Pussy Riot so far.
Btw, according to Wikipedia, hate speech can get you up to a year in jail in France and denying the Holocaust can get you five years. It doesn't seem that this has stopped the Far Right from "finding some government".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
The laws against inciting racial hatred are relatively rarely used in the UK (and in a majority of cases not used against white people) but there has traditionally been a link between explicit racist propagandising in specific areas and an increase in racist violence in those areas, as far as i know. The far right doesn't pose an intellectual or political threat to the country, it poses a threat to individuals with baseball bats and bricks.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://m.vice.com/read/we-too-are-hooligans
- max
lol like many a vice "story" about "issues" this one was just another exercise in self-aggrandizement.
― omar little, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
Are there boycotts in Russia?
― dow, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
by adopting their imagery while refusing to mention their radical politics amnesty is silencing pussy riot and the lion's share of their social critique while pretending to amplify them. and amnesty is fundraising--for themselves--off of it. that's what's meant by the descriptor "opportunism."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
^^ yes
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think that's really unfair on Amnesty. Amnesty campaigns for the release of political prisoners, not the causes of those prisoners.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, as with ACLU, defending freedom of speech doesn't mean anything if you only defend the speech you agree with, obviously. I suppose the following will inspire another righteous op-ed, deploring escape of some PR members, "and if you don't go to Moscow and do what Pussy Riot did, then you cannot protest their sentences, for you are in essence fleeing responsibility" or some shit:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/26/pussy-riot-members-escape-russia_n_1831087.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D197183
― dow, Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm with Stew on this re Amnesty International. And even if they're fundraising off this, that's fine with me too as it will aid their efforts to free political prisoners that are less well-known than Pussy Riot. As for "silencing them," while the Amnesty site does not cover much of their social critique, their August 17 item on the verdict spelled out this much(here's an excerpt):
Pussy Riot performed the protest song “Virgin Mary, redeem us from Putin” in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on 21 February, with the group members covering their faces in balaclavas.
The song called on the Virgin Mary to become a feminist and banish Vladimir Putin. It also criticised the dedication and support shown to Putin by some Russian Orthodox Church representatives. It was one of a number of performances intended as a protest against Vladimir Putin in the run-up to Russia’s presidential elections in March.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, as with ACLU, defending freedom of speech doesn't mean anything if you only defend the speech you agree with, obviously. I suppose the following will inspire another righteous op-ed, deploring escape of some PR members, "and if you don't go to Moscow and do what Pussy Riot did, then you cannot protest their sentences, for you are in essence fleeing responsibility" or some shit: --dow
I'm not suggesting--as the op-Ed was--that anyone who fails to adopt PR's anarchism is somehow engaging in a cowardly half measure, nor am I saying I want to see SMASH THE STATE on the next set of signs Amnesty prints for me to wave outside the Russian embassy. I'm suggesting that to adopt PR's flamboyant imagery in the interest of getting attention for their case--rather than their cause--is cynical, and to raise money off of it is supremely so. As someone else said, if you didn't know any better lately you might think Pussy Riot's cause was to Free Pussy Riot.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 August 2012 05:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
And for the record, my neighbor gave me an annoyed bang on the wall after my excited holler when I read of the escape--followed immediately by my lady friend's holler at their call to feminist punks around the world to join up.
\m/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 August 2012 05:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think most people would be aware of the context but there's a chance that the Amnesty campaign is deliberately playing down the political aspect of the protest for Pussy Riot's own benefit, or perceived benefit. Saying that the trial, or at least the sentence, was unjust chimes with what a lot of people in Russia would be thinking. There's a real danger that Amnesty engaging more deeply with the anti-Putin element would delegitimise both Amnesty and Pussy Riot in the eyes of a lot of people who might otherwise be sympathetic to their cause. Russians of all political stripes tend not to react well to outsiders trying to interfere in their political processes. One of the biggest criticisms, or allegations, against the band is that their funding / support base comes from abroad.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Monday, 27 August 2012 07:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
my housemate happened to be in russia recently and wrote this - thought it was an interesting angle on how pussy riot are perceived by russian women: http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/valeria-costa-kostritsky/is-feminism-in-russia-mortal-sin
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 August 2012 09:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
This whole thing seems more a freedom-of-speech issue than a feminism issue.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
Or are men generally allowed to do what they did in Russia without consequence?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah these issues are totally separate, no way there could be a feminist angle to their actions or the response to their actions here given that they self-identify as feminist and all
and pointing out the feminist angle obviously means freedom of speech is not an issue at all because it's EITHER/OR
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 10:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, because when Men get sent to prison, there's always someone in the crowd shouting "didn't he think about how this'll affect his KIDS??"
oh, wait..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 10:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yes whoever said it's EITHER/OR is pretty wrong.
If I want to find out more about what is about from a standpoint of 'Why did they go to jail for protesting?' I would probably read up on the history and politics of Russian suppression of speech before reading up on the history of feminism.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
i could do with reading something about feminism in russia, actually
― thomp, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
i mean, more than (more historical than?) the half a dozen paragraphs on open democracy. i gather it has a kind of weird history, due to various western-world-centric assumptions of a lot of second-wave & after feminism not really working over there
― thomp, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
I agree w Hoos re exploitation, making money off a kewl rad cause, good to take a hard look before and after any donations.
― dow, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 02:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/08/29/listen-d-c-s-tribute-to-pussy-riot/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
Uh.
http://www.factmag.com/2012/08/30/free-pussy-riot-written-in-blood-at-double-murder-scene/
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 August 2012 17:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
I would not be surprised if that was a complete fabrication
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
"At the crime scene, on the wall of the apartment was discovered an inscription presumably written in blood: 'Free Pussy Riot'," said the committee, which is Russia's top investigative body and answers to Putin.
O RLY
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, me neither. That was pretty much what the 'uh' was about, really.
Though even if true it says nothing about the case itself, and everything about how people like to make themselves part of a narrative (see also: number of people corroborating 'roar' story re the fictional Essex Lion).
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
The partner of the younger victim has confessed and said that he wrote the slogan to throw police off.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
freed
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
wait ha sorry no called to be freed but unless they are playing a subtler game than it looks like they are playing w/ impressions of medvedev's independence that's p much the same thing
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
One member has been released after appeal, the other two will have to serve their terms, it seems:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/10/pussy-riot-member-freed-moscow
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh I was just about to post the CNN.com version of this story
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:04 (7 months ago) Permalink